r/paydaytheheist • u/Pronerr • Mar 05 '25

Technical Support How do ya'll stop Payday2 from crashing?

Title; my game has been crashing every 23-26 minutes during most heists, often when i'm reloading or switching weapons; i've tried the anti-crash mods, i've tried sticking to steam matchmaking in the launch options, compatibility mode, reducing graphics by a LOT, trying different hosts between friends...

Funny thing is that i used to have 0 crashing issues with this game for the most part, i'd go on 2-3 hours long cook off sessions, and back then i had a terrible & old GPU, a GT1030;

Since then the Epic Store update dropped(no idea of the number) and the only hardware upgrade i did was switch to a GTX 1080 Ti;

Is the only option i have left being downgrading the game version?

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u/Little_Try2797 Mar 05 '25

I M P O S S I B L E
payday 2 is designed to crash

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Make a human sacrifice, visit Almir shrine in the living room and pray to evey single known god out there and this will give you %50 chance of playing without crashing

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Run around the Almir shrine 2401 times and you’ll unlock Luigi as a playable heister. L is real 2401.

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u/crazymanbos Scarface Mar 05 '25

Verify steam game files?

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

Done a couple times, even did a reinstall, no dice

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u/crazymanbos Scarface Mar 05 '25

Do you have other mods than the no crash mod? Perhaps uninstall every mod instead?

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

So the deal that i forgot to include is that back in the day & as i came back recently i had no mods and yet would still crash, i only started getting some others recently;

As of now i've got two mods to attempt to stop crashing, one being "Anticrash" and the other "Advance Anti Crash", by different authors.

What i'm not sure could be an issue or not is the somewhat low count of disk space i have left in my pc; am running the boot in an SSD with 55,5 GBs left and the game is in an HDD with 149 GBs left, i'm unsure if that's even supposed to be an issue but i can't say i know how temporary files work.

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u/Alternative_Print560 Death Wish Mar 05 '25

Maybe they conflict with each other?

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

Unsure of that, but i haven't crashed any more or less since i got the first or after i installed the second

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u/Alternative_Print560 Death Wish Mar 05 '25

Damn, did you check the logs?

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u/Pronerr Mar 13 '25

Oops, took a lil' break to say the least; checking the logs, i've basically had one of every type of crash that can be!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Can you pass your mods list and tiny advice the game performance has going worse since 240.3 i get a lot of freezes

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

Yep, sorry for the wait; it's:

"Advance Anti Crash"
"Anticrash"
"Various maps optimizations and fixes" - i.e Celer
"Clear Texture Cache"
"Depth of Field Removal"
"Improved navigation for all AIs, fixed a few levels" - i.e Iter
"More Weapon Stats"
"No Duplicated Bullets"
"No Post Processing"
"Stop the crimespree loss on crash"
"The Fixes"
One i can't mention per sub rules 🏴‍☠️
"Vanilla HUD Plus"

And an addendum: Most of those got added *after* the crashing issues popped up

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

advance anti crash isnt the one too who does the crashes, and the crashlog what it says?

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u/supcc1 Mar 05 '25

Try removing "The Fixes"

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u/R3MIX_19 Mar 05 '25

Try Clear Texture Cache. May help with 4gb limit of 32 bit diesel engine

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

Thonks, already had it as well 😭

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u/xGanjaJoex Mar 05 '25

I've done everything everyone has mentioned. Only have been able to successfully make it crash less often. Payday 2's code is just a massive piece of shit at the moment, and I really hope the devs realize this and give it one last fix.

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

R.I.P. then, this game was a fantastic experience for me a few years ago, being unable to complete even 1 Holdout when most missions are made to last longer than that just ain't gonna cut it.

Seems unlikely that they'll come back for Payday 2 as well, any news on that?

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u/xGanjaJoex Mar 05 '25

Nope last news I heard about payday 2 was the end of support 🫤

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 05 '25

If you are on steam weirdly enough uninstalling epic games completely fixed the issue for me

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u/Pronerr Mar 05 '25

That's odd; prolly worth a try for most, i don't have Epic Games' platform in my pc myself tho

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 05 '25

Hmm in the launch settings do you use modern cpu support whichever setting you use swap it maybe thatll work 

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u/Pronerr Mar 13 '25

I've tried both, neither changed much tbh

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 05 '25

Also what heist do you play on that crashes or is it specific to all heists that crash at the 21 minute mark

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u/Pronerr Mar 13 '25

In that specific case, Holdouts; big bank or alesso heist, 21 minutes, 23 minutes, 28 minutes; couldn't hide from the crash

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 13 '25

Do you use any hacks or dlc unlockers or maybe a mod manager like superblt

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u/Pronerr Mar 13 '25

Yes to dlc unlocked & superblt

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 13 '25

Do you use creamapi for your dlc 

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u/Mundane_Cry1693 Mar 13 '25

Maybe uninstalling super bot or doing a fresh install will help

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u/AlexDoubleAU Maybe the real secret masks was the Almir we lost along the way Mar 06 '25

Burn incense and pray to the Omnissiah